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J U N C U S articulatus.
Jointed, Ruß.
a (f-t-t/u >
H E X A N D R I A Monogynta,
Gen. Char. Cal. of 6 leaves. Cor. none. Cap/ule of
one or three cells.
Spec. Char. Leaves with knotty joints. Flowers in
fmall clufters, panicled.
Syn . Juncus articulatus. Linn. Sp. PI. 465. Hudf.
F I. An. 149. With. Bat. A rr. 361.
J . compreffus. Relb. Cant. 142, Sibth. Ox on. 1 14 ,
J . foins pYticulofis, flonbus umbellatis, R a il Syn. 433,
v ERY common in meadows and moill paltures, flowering
in June, and ripening its feed in July.
The root is creeping and perennial. Stems obliquely af-
cending at the bafe, then ereft, fmooth like every other part,
round, a foot or more in height, clothed with a few alternate,
(heathing, recurved, pointed leaves j which are occafionally
cylindrical or comprefied, hollow, their cavity divided by nu,
merous tranfverfe partitions, which make the dried leaves
appear jointed. Panicle terminal, forked, more or lefs com-;
pound, the flowers from 3 to 5 or 6 together, feflile, in little
heads enveloped in membranous braftese. Calyx-leaves (which
all authors copying one another call petals) lanceolate, pointed,
longer than the ftamina. Style very Ihort, with 3 long downy
jligmata. Capfule Iharply triangular, of a polilhed brown.
We cannot fee any reafon to make the upland variety of
this plant (Mr. Relhan’s articulate) a diftinft fpecies ; at leaft
it is certain that neither the leaves being more or lefs com-
prefled, nor the panicle more or lefs compound, are permanent
piarks of diftinftioij.